Bonnie Boone

Bonnie Boone is an executive vice president for J.P. West, Inc., of New York and Chicago, where she works with leadership to develop markets, operational processes, sales/growth, and overall corporate strategy. Her expertise includes professional liability, general liability, cyber liability, and other lines of coverage for a broad range of large clients. Her knowledge base includes captives and reinsurance for manufacturing risk, financial institutions, public entities, biotech, physicians, hospitals, academic medical centers, long-term care, and managed care.

Ms. Boone has over 38 years of experience in the insurance industry as a broker and underwriter. Prior to J.P. West, she worked for Gallagher as an executive vice president, producer, and client executive. She also cochaired the diversity and inclusion effort for the Gallagher Midwest Region.

Previously, she worked for Marsh NYC, where she sat on the national executive committee for its healthcare practice. She brokered and serviced some of the largest healthcare systems in the country. Prior to that, she was with Alliant Insurances Services, where she oversaw health care and casualty for the Chicago and New York offices. She was one of the first brokers to include directors and officers (D&O) and cyber liability in an offshore captive. She also held a national position with Willis and worked with 280 retail offices on a global basis to produce business, market, and set strategy for the healthcare industry and casualty business. She chaired product line/industry segments for long-term care, managed care, and healthcare professional liability (integrated delivery systems), among others. She has placed reinsurance for some of the largest captive programs in the country.

Additional experience includes managing an underwriting staff and a book of business for Continental Insurance Company with a premium volume of $103 million, establishing market direction, reinsurance treaties, developing rates, underwriting guidelines, and corporate strategies.

She is an author and speaker/lecturer on many industry subjects (Temple University, IRMI, RIMS, American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, and IMAC Medical Group) and is the founder of a networking group for women of color in the commercial insurance industry. Ms. Boone sits on the board of the Women to Watch Foundation, the New York Association of Healthcare Risk Managers, and the National African American Insurance Association Foundation.